Monochrome 1913 handbook illustration, cropped to ordinary ONE PENNY surcharge; not a colour specimen scan or paper/watermark authentication
1902 / Heritage
One Penny on Queen Victoria 2½d
One Penny provisional
Denomination1d
Issue date1902-07-04
The story behind the issue
A shortage of penny stamps led to a local surcharge on the Queen Victoria two-pence-halfpenny value. This base entry excludes the One Pnney error, shade varieties and gum differences.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- GBP pre-decimal
- Designer
- Not documented
- Printer
- Government Printing Office, Valletta (surcharge)
- Printing process
- Not documented
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Stamps per sheet
- 120 stamps in two panes of 60; each pane surcharged separately
- Perforation
- 14
- Watermark
- Crown CA
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Blue shades
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
VerifiedImage & attribution
Alexander Joseph Séfi, The Postage Stamps of Malta (1913); top-left ordinary stamp cropped from handbook block illustration, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain — PD-scan / PD-old; source expressly identifies mechanical scan, 1913 publication and author deceased 1934
Base designs only; shades, errors, proofs and later printings excluded.
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